Solving the One Business Problem that Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier

What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference

by Tim Sanders

A "Responsibility Revolution" is shaking up corporate America. In this provocative and insightful book, bestselling author Tim Sanders reveals why companies must go beyond making a profit and start making a difference and offers concrete suggestions on how all of us can help our companies join the Responsibility Revolution.

How to Identify the Sources of Growth and Drive Enduring Company Performance

by Patrick Viguerie, Sven Smit, Mehrdad Baghai

While growth is a top priority for companies of all sizes, it can be extremely difficult to maintain — especially in today's competitive business environment. In order to achieve this goal, you need to think through the growth challenges your organization faces and follow a detailed approach to uncover, understand and capture potential growth opportunities.

Developing Effective Leadership Through Managerial Accountability

by Brian Dive

Centered around three themes — leadership, accountability and organizational structure — this book explores what it means for managers to be held accountable at every level and argues that most leadership-related problems arise from the ineffectiveness of organizational structures that lack accountable jobs.

The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

by George Soros

In the midst of the most serious financial upheaval in decades, legendary financier George Soros explores the origins of the crisis and its implications for the future. Soros, whose breadth of experience in financial markets is unrivaled, places the current crisis in the context of decades of study of how individuals and institutions handle the boom-and-bust cycles and dominate global economic activity. The prevailing paradigm for financial markets — that markets tend toward equilibrium an

Leadership Communication that Drives Results

by Bob Matha, Macy Boehm

Leadership communications experts Bob Matha and Macy Boehm offer a strategic plan for addressing one of the most difficult challenges any business leader can face: engaging employees to take action. Written for all those who lead groups — including supervisors, managers, HR and communications professionals, executives and CEOs — this practical resource describes how to put in place proven communication principles that do just that.

How Tesco Continues to Win Customer Loyalty

by Terry Hunt, Clive Humby

In Scoring Points, marketing experts Clive Humby and Terry Hunt and journalist Tim Phillips explain how Tesco went from being just one of three grocery chains in Great Britain to the undisputed leader. By creating the world’s leading customer relationship management program, Tesco has learned a lot about what it takes to retain those customers and induce them to spend more. What Tesco has learned from its program can serve as inspiration for others just now launching loyalty programs or

Expand Your Market without Abandoning Your Roots

by Chris Zook

In his previous book, Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how the most enduring growth performers succeeded by focusing and building around one or two well-defined, dominant cores — and how otherwise well-positioned firms sabotaged their growth by prematurely abandoning their core in pursuit of the next “hot” topic. Now, based on extensive research on the growth patterns of thousands of companies worldwide — including CEO interviews with the top 25 growth performer